Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being the grandson of a '49er, and a Native Son I feel impelled to go to the aid of that local lady who fears her Eastern kin may fear to visit Frisco because she is living in the "toughest part of town" (TIME, March 13). I'll calm her fears right off the reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with...
...order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic, which deadens only the scalp nerves. Strangely enough, gentle manipulation of a bare brain produces no pain...
...birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...
...bleakness of the picture he draws. Dilemma of Five Cities is that Author Leighton's enthusiasm for the color and gusto of U. S. life is always at war with his knowledge of the violence of much of U. S. history. But in telling the story in local, rather than national terms, Five Cities suggests that he has tapped one of the richest of unworked U. S. historical mines...
...started when Jack Baldwin, San Jose, California, sophomore, tried to hang on to his local reputation an a Don Juan and five dollars, which an attempt to kiss twenty girls out of twenty-two in a half hour. Eight or the girls demurely denied him his fare. The fourteen maidens who succumbed offered him just consolation for the lost fiver...